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Flo's avatar
Flo
Qrew Member
5 hours ago

On Form Open, populate an User and Timestamp field. No way to trigger rule on Form Open?

Hi! Use case: On opening a form (new or existing record) I want to auto-populate a field (e.g. timestamp field with now() and a user field with currentUser()) when the fields are currently empty. I...
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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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3 hours ago

I'm sure we can get a form rule to work, but why not do it the more obvious way.

Just going to field properties and set a default both of those fields.  There should be the option to respectively default to current user and default to now.